The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-03
STANLEY'S EXPEDITION.
The Tremendous Cost of Travel II
Central Africn-A 100000
Outfit.

The expedition which Mr. Stanley !
about TO lead into Africa is by far thu
largest and most expensive that eve
set out on peaceful mission in thu
continent. Travelling in savage coun
tries is always very costly. 1t ha'
been estimated that the average eX
pense incurred by exploring parties il
Africa is over S15 mile. 1t cost thu
English and Algerian missionary so
ceties over $4,000 apiece for ever,
missionary they landed on the shores o.
Victoria Nyanza. Stanley's trip across
the continent is said to have cost aboul
$50, 900. Dr. Holub who is now work
ing his way from South Africa to the
Great Lakes, took with him an outfit
that cost $4,000 The money ex.
pended by most important expeditions
has varied from $4,000 to $40, 900.
An explorers force OF porters and 9th.
er native assistants varies from forty to
250 souls. Mr.. SANKEY'S present ex.
petition will include about one thous.
and persons. and his travelling outfit
and trade goods have cost something
over 500 900. II must be remember.
ed that he is not only trying to AIDE.
quately supply the needs of his large
party, but that he is also carrying
much clothing, ammunition, and other
supplies to the several hundred per.
sons who are numbered in the little
retinue of Emin Pasha-
An exhibition was given in England
the other day of the performance of a
Maxim gun. 1t was part of the mill
tary outfit of the Stanley expedition,
and the explorer and many prominent
men watched the performance of the
weapon with much satisfaction as il
poured forth storm OF about six hun.
dred bullets minute. Here is an ex-
petition that is bound on mis-
sion of humanity, and wishes i'll to nc
one. 1t unfortunately happens. how.
ever, that at no / me since Burton and
Spoke penetrated to the Great lakes in
1858 have times been so troublesome in
Central Africa as they are now. In
Uganda and the reg on around il, where
Stanley said eleven years ago that he
travelled as securely as in Europe, the
powerful despot, NJ wanga, has within
the past two years, killed many thous-
ands of people. 1t is said that in one
campaign last year he killed ten thous.
and soldiers of his northern neighbor,
the king of Unyoro He is the avowed
enemy of the whites, one Of whom he
has murdered. two he has enslaved,
and the others who were in his power
he has expelled from his country.
If Stanley is not able by peaceable
means to open the road to Wadelai, il
he cannot buy the favor of the ruler OF
Uganda, he must defend the lives of his
party and by force, if needs be, fulfill
the mission he is sent to perform. 1t is
right that he be supplied with the best
appl ances of military art. 1t is be.
lieved that the man who has not been
excelled by any African explorer in the
tact aud forbearancc he has displayed
in his dealings with the natives may be
trusted to use these appliances only il
necessity compels their use. Among
the Europeans who will accompany Mr..
Stanley is one who is specially qualified
to handle the Maxim gun.
One of Mr.. SANKEY'S servants will be
n boy in his teens, who was among o.
lot of little slaves that the explorer
bought of the Arabs three years ago.
The slaves were starving, and Stanley
bought the boys for few cotton hand
kerchiefs, and distributed them among
the white stations along the Congo
These lads are all from the Aruwimi
river region, and speak languages
which none of the white men on the
Congo has yet acquired. If MIR. Stan
ley takes the Congo route, us he de-
res to do. it is very possible that he
will ascend the Aruwimi river tc
reach Emin Pasha. IT, when he reaches
the Congo, he decides to take this
course, it Is his intention to collect these
boys as he goes up the river. and make
them useful to him rs interpreters and
peacemakers among their kindred oil
the Aruwiml tribes. 1t was his belief
when he bought their freedom and dis
tributed these BOYS along the river &c
be educated in the white mans art, that
by so doing he was securing so many
strong and faithful native Helpers for
his Congo enterprise. 1t is possible
that he little imagined that the next
time he visited the spot where he freed
them from the shackles of the Arat
slave driver. these boys, who have al
been doing well, would be able to rem.
der him services to almost incalcula
BILE value. -NeU York Sun.